Yesterday I was summoned by my boss to make a note on 50 Cent, the rapper with the sound name and clicking. The guy would have said that he would most likely end his musical career, long as the arm, after the release of his last album, scheduled in the course of this year 2022. I pushed a lot of relief. This guy! I never liked his flow. His pasty voice, his money-oriented messages, his dark past, his private life fraught with divorce and violence, and his public life worthy of a black novel, left me perplexed. But the boss has spoken; you have to do it, dare. So I will not take gloves. I will go straight ahead. Don’t think I’ve been approached by some of his rivals, like Jay-Z, Rick Ross, French Montana, Kanye West, who think he sucks and tell anyone who wants to hear him that he’s not even worth half the dollar he claims to be.

In an interview given to The Talk, a talk show by the American audiovisual giant CSB, on January 28, 2022, 50 Cent dropped this, basically – my English being rather mediocre, so I’ll just interpret his words: “I gave a lot to music. I’m at the top. That’s the best I can do. But it is in the world of cinema that I excel the most, that I feel that I will make the next big success of the global box office”. He must be suffering from anosmia. In these covid times, it makes you think. In any case, he doesn’t do it in lace. Yet, how much credit can you give to a guy who’s blasé himself? A real number, the guy. I hope it’s cinema. 

But on the other hand, deep down, I say to myself: finally, a real propitiatory sacrifice in the world of music. It was time. He gave us too much crap with his gibberish. His music stunned our ears enough. In his twenty-two years of career, he has only misrepresented the charming art of hip-hop. A voice that speaks without any color agreement. It is certain: he is not too likely to be missed by this audience who broke his eardrums by listening to him in a loop, without knowing too much what kind of divine messages he was looking for in his worldly songs or what celestial note he was looking for in this unbridled flow?

Enough mockery. Let’s be serious. 
Whatever one might write on the account of this stretch of muscle always wearing a cap and decorated with gold chains – almost massive – nothing predestined him to be where he is today. To be this mad dog of hip-hop, this pile of burning flesh, he was forced to fatten himself with courage and tenacity.

50 Cent is an anomaly, basically. A guy from Queens, one of those infamous neighborhoods in the New York District that nothing, not even statistics, predestined to such fame. This gibbeux has even made the predictive analyses lie to become today this mellifère that fuels the lusts. What nerve! Yet he passed with his hands high all the journeys that littered his ascent. Born to a drug-addicted mother who died in a deadly fire and a father sentenced to life in prison, Curtis sold drugs, went to jail, walked around with a gun and even took a bullet in his face, hence his atypical voice. The classic course of an ordinary guy from Queens. But a grain of sand will stop the infernal machine: this grain of sand will be hip-hop.

47 years! And a record as long as his arm. He won everything: money, fame and accolades. From the world of music, he drew everything, as one draws the milk of a cow. He wants to explore other universes. That of the seventh art time. And it’s working for him. With successful series like «Power» and «For Life», he decided to close the chapter of music and turn to an art that fascinates him: cinema.

50 Can he give up his first love and make a clean slate on what has enabled him to attain the notoriety he now has? Would this withdrawal from the music scene be a COMM’ coup or a marketing strategy? The future will tell us.

Article made by our correspondent Fatou Dieng from Dakar

This Sunday, November 21, 2021, a huge crowd answered the call of the mayor of Mermoz Sacré-Coeur Barthélémy Dias for his inauguration ceremony initiated by his opposition companions. Candidate for mayor of the city of Dakar, a city strategic on the political level, his inauguration was long awaited by his supporters and his supporters. He must now defend the colours of the “Yewwi Askan Wi” coalition for the next local elections on 23 January 2022.

They came in excess to applaud their candidate, the pimps of the mayor of Mermoz Sacré-Coeur did not want to miss this inauguration ceremony. The favourite candidate was nominated by the other members of the “Yewwi Askan Wi” coalition on Sunday, November 21.

Under the applause of a conquered crowd, the head of the majority list, Barthélémy Dias called his teammates who wanted to be invested to join him for the triumph of their coalition.

“I pledge with you, young people, men, women and adults, to take up this collective challenge for the triumph of our coalition on the evening of January 23, 2022. This will only be possible with the commitment of each and every one of us. Every voice counts. Let us not neglect anyone. Above all, let us be generous to all our fellow citizens and remain attentive to their concerns. The time of investitures has passed, Choosing does not mean excluding. The time of unity and cohesion has rung. Let’s avoid division and work together in the same direction to achieve our goal. The main thing is to win in all 19 municipalities. Above all, to win the city hall of Dakar,” said Barthélémy Dias.

For the candidate invested in the conquest of the town hall of Dakar, the gravity of the hour could not begin their commitment and their determination to meet the challenge of these local elections. “I am committed to continuing all the great projects initiated by Khalife Ababacar Sall for the exclusive benefit of the people of Dakar. But the gravity of the moment cannot diminish our commitment and determination to meet the challenge of these local elections”.

Moreover, although this inauguration of Barthélémy Dias is of particular importance, other candidates were invested the same day by the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition. There are 19 of them. An event held at the Grand Yoff (Dakar) field on Sunday 21 November.
The leader of Pastef-Les Patriotes Ousmane Sonko, the former mayor of Dakar Khalifa Ababacar Sall and the other members of the coalition also made the trip to support their comrades.

Note that this unprecedented meeting has drained a crowd of activists and supporters just two months before the municipal and departmental elections to be held on January 23, 2022.

Former Franco-Senegalese international Jean-Pierre Adams died this Monday, September 6, 2021 at the University Hospital of Nîmes, at the age of 73. The footballer had been in a deep coma since March 17, 1982, following an anesthesia error.

The former Senegalese player who counted 22 selections between 1972 and 1976, Jean-Pierre Adams died this Monday, September 6 after spending 39 years in a coma. On March 17, 1982, he had undergone knee surgery. However, the operation went wrong. An anesthesia error, had plunged Jean-Pierre Adams into a coma. Note the considerable support of his wife who was by his side from beginning to end.

His wife Bernadette Adams, with whom he had been married since April 1969, decided to bring him back to her and spent the last forty years looking after him. “I have no regrets,” she said in the French press two years ago. “It was the best solution. If I hadn’t taken it with me, I think it would no longer be here today, given the state in which I recovered it,” she said. 

Born in Dakar, Jean-Pierre Adams was raised by a Senegalese grandmother who was taken on pilgrimage by a love of the Catholic religion to Montargis, in the Loiret region, to drop the eight-year-old boy off at a religious school. Adoptive parents of goodwill and football will allow him to escape from the Public Assistance. Adams is a former student of the Saint-Louis de Montargis school.

After his debut at the Entente Fontainebleau with which he was double vice-champion of France Amateurs in 1968 and 1969, Jean-Pierre Adams, defender, signed in Nîmes at the beginning of 1970. It exploded rapidly as the Nîmois rose through the ranks. 1972 will be the year of his total revelation since he finishes vice-champion with the Gardois crocodiles, wins the Cup of the Alps and joins the Team of France during a France – Africa. This defender, measuring 1.78 m, constitutes in French team with Marius Trésor a formidable defensive central hinge nicknamed the Black Guard At the end of his career, he signed at the end of July 1980 at FC Chalon.